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Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, of Fra Mauro

Sacro Bosco by Fra Mauro: Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria

Type of object:

Book & Prints

Time period:

Portugal & Spanje

Place:

Venice

Date:

1537

Maker / Author:

Juan Ortega de Carrión,

Publisher / Printer:

Bartolomeo Zanetti

Dimensions:

204 x 146 mm

Material:

With many woodcut prints on paper; 18 cent. cove

Graduation:

120 pages

Inscription:

none

Provenance:

Steven White collection

Image by Austin Neill

Description

First Italian edition, Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta.
Lacking final two leaves, often lacking: consisting of the errata and a volvelle woodcut; translation by Marco Mauro illustrated with cosmographically-themed woodcut title page border, large full-paged woodcut on verso of title showing the translator at work, his desk a globe, with another globe on a stand in the background, a ship at sea in the window, sun and moon in the sky, with tools of astronomy and navigation in the surrounding border; full-paged woodcut arms of Charles V on the second leaf, numerous text illustration. Very early printed instructions about the use of the Southern-cross for the navigation.

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